Broadband Gaming

[Rachel.B]

I was put on a gamer profile for ps3 and my ping was quite stable, now it's all over again. it used to join games of <75 (which is still a little high and lags) now it's more like <125

can anyone help?

C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  SkyRouter.
  2    24 ms    40 ms    22 ms  bb.sky.com
  3    84 ms    93 ms    85 ms  *********

  4    74 ms    73 ms    67 ms  *********

  5   105 ms   101 ms   104 ms  *********

  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    86 ms    89 ms    94 ms  ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk 

  9    98 ms   126 ms    97 ms  *********

 10   121 ms   104 ms    97 ms  bbc-vip114.telhc.bbc.co.uk

Trace complete.

C:\

router stats

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed Line Attenuation Noise Margin

9209 kbps	1106 kbps
33.0 dB	19.0 dB
5.5 dB	8.2 dB

[Rachel.B]

from this morning, why the huge difference?

C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  SkyRouter.Home 

  2    21 ms    21 ms    22 ms  bb.sky.com
  3    22 ms    21 ms    22 ms  ***********

  4    33 ms    38 ms    38 ms  ***********

  5    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  ***********

  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7    34 ms    33 ms    32 ms  ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk 

  8    32 ms    45 ms    33 ms  ***********

  9    33 ms    32 ms    32 ms  bbc-vip016.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk

Trace complete.

C:\>

[Rachel.B]

seems ok now, but why does it vary so much?

C:\>ping 212.58.241.131

Pinging 212.58.241.131 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=246

Ping statistics for 212.58.241.131:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 30ms, Maximum = 32ms, Average = 31ms

C:\>

[Rachel.B]

C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.71]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  SkyRouter.Home

  2    22 ms    22 ms    22 ms  5ad17d3e.bb.sky.com

  3    22 ms    22 ms    22 ms  **********

  4    35 ms    39 ms    37 ms  **********

  5    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  **********

  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    32 ms    32 ms    32 ms  ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk 

  9    32 ms    33 ms    34 ms  **********

 10    32 ms    31 ms    31 ms  bbc-vip116.telhc.bbc.co.uk

Trace complete.

C:\>

again, better but still timing out on hops 6&7

[Daryl1]

I am getting high pings between 7pm and 12am. Why is this?

[flamey]

What is your 3rd hop ip?

[Rachel.B]

thanks for your reply..

here's the full thing except my IP.

C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.90]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  SkyRouter.Home 

  2    24 ms    22 ms    42 ms  bb.sky.com

  3    34 ms    33 ms    30 ms  10.245.162.1
  4    34 ms    42 ms    35 ms  89.200.131.183
  5    57 ms    32 ms    34 ms  212.58.238.189
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7    34 ms    43 ms    41 ms  ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
  8    34 ms    39 ms    40 ms  132.185.255.164
  9    34 ms    34 ms    35 ms  bbc-vip011.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.90]

Trace complete.

C:\>

[flamey]

Thanks, no security issues as your ip won't be listed at any point in a trace only the internal LAN router ip that is useless

There are some issues at the moment with the 2nd hop of the sky network in some areas (few posts down this forum experience similar) but only at peak times. Best thing to do is try and bring it to their attention by reporting it to customer service, though will probably have to be escalated to another tier for them
to understand what you are talking about - this varies of course.

[Rachel.B]

My external ip was shown after 2nd hop.ill ring customer service and log my problem. Thanks.

[flamey]

Here is the same problem but a different ip again spiking on the 2nd hop. Had the same issue a while back so can sympathize its irritating hope it gets picked up by someone.

[Malcolm-M]

Hi Rachel.B, can I ask what exchange you are on?

[Rachel.B · Accepted solution]

I don't know. If I do a speedtest my exchange is shown as 200+ miles away to the south.

[Daryl1]

@Malcol.M I am on the shrewsbury exchange and have this same issue with high pings during peak times, a number of people in Shrospshire on this forum and elsewhere have reported the same issue.

@Rachel.B go to Samknows and put your phone or postal code in and it will tell you.

[Richard+Alpagot]

Would it not be best to test to the same server on a designated service such as pingtest.net and also see if you get slow downs correlating to these results in the evening with speedtest.net (run one after the other). Might be better than the BBC which is a high volume site which will likely get more traffic in the evenings... 

Basically you would need to prove to technical support that there is a fault by providing as much info as possible. 

Also worth bearing in mind that different games work in different ways so test multiple games out. Some games will work on servers hosted by the publisher (better as long as they are UK based). Other games with connect to other users and use them as a server which is then very much Dependant on that players connection (more importantly the upstream). In some games you can also be the server which is ideal (maybe not so for the other players if you have the bad upload ;-)